Coffee And Walnut Cake Recipe

If you love coffee, this coffee and walnut cake is for you. The vibrant taste of coffee combined with the sweet nutty flavour of the walnuts in a light cake will make you go “hmmm”. Perfect as a treat mid morning or afternoon or any time of the day. It’s also an easy cake. Here is the coffee and walnut cake recipe.

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Equipment needed

1. Electric mixer

2. Round cake tins

INGREDIENTS

For The Cake

Ingredients	Quantity
Butter	250g
Caster sugar	250g
Eggs	4
Vanilla extract	1 tsp
Self raising flour*	250g
Baking powder	1 tsp
Salt	A pinch
Coffee – strong black fresh coffee but works great with instant too	150ml
Walnuts – chopped fine	75g

For The Icing

Ingredients	Quantity
Butter	150g
Icing sugar	200g
Coffee	1 tbsp if fresh black coffee otherwise 2tsps instant coffee mixed in 1tbsp of boiling water
Walnuts	20g halves

METHOD

Preheat your oven to 180C/fan 160/gas mark 4.

Assemble all your ingredients.

Grease the sides and bottom of 2X20cm round baking cake tins. Line the bottom with baking parchment paper.

Cream the butter and sugar.

Beat in the eggs one by one.

Add the vanilla extract.

Sift the self-raising flour, salt and baking powder together

Mix this in alternately with the coffee starting and ending with flour.

Mix in the chopped walnuts

Divide between two cake tins

Bake the cakes till golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. This should be about 25-30 mins.

Let the cakes cool in the tin before turning onto cooling rack.

Make the icing by creaming the butter, icing sugar & coffee together.

Place one cake and ice the top surface.

Put the second cake on top and ice the top and decorate with walnuts.

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TIPS

Don’t have self-raising flour? Here’s how to use regular flour instead. For every cup of regular or plain flour add a tiny pinch of salt & 1.5tsp of baking powder. (This recipe calls for 250g of flour which is around 2 cups so you’ll need a total of 4 tsp of baking powder).

Chop the walnuts fine for the cake, otherwise when you try and cut it, the cake will crumble.

If you only have a rectangular tin, go ahead and make this as a sheet cake and ice the top

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